Patents by Inventor Scott E. Coleridge

Scott E. Coleridge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250255475
    Abstract: A laparoscopic medical device includes an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows making oxygen saturation measurements laparoscopically. The laparoscopic medical device includes a probe unit and a laparoscopic tube that detachably connects with the probe unit so that the laparoscopic tube can be replaced for different patient surgeries and the probe unit can be reused for the different surgeries. The probe unit includes a number of transmitting optical fibers and the detachable laparoscopic tube includes a number of receiving optical fibers where tips of the transmitting and receiving optical fibers connect end to end. Cores of the transmitting optical fibers have smaller numerical apertures than cores of the receiving optical fibers to facilitate a high percentage of light transmission from the transmitting optical fibers to the receiving optical fibers even when the cores of the transmitting and receiving optical fibers are misaligned at their connecting ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, Sean Gossin, Timothy Lee Sauder, Kevin Dunk, Scott E. Coleridge, Mark Lonsinger
  • Patent number: 12383169
    Abstract: An oximeter probe includes a probe unit or a base unit and a probe tip where the probe tip has a number of sources and detectors that can be accessed individually or in differing combinations for measuring tissue oxygen saturation at different tissue depth in tissue. A processor of the oximeter probe controls a multiplexer that is coupled to the detectors for selectively collecting measurement information from the detectors via the multiplexer. The oximeter probe is user programmable via one or more input devices on the oximeter probe for selecting the particular sources and detectors to collect measurement information from by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Jennifer Elizabeth Keating, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Patent number: 12383172
    Abstract: An oximeter device has a replaceable probe tip. The probe tip can be removed or detached from the probe unit and discarded. A replacement probe tip can be attached to the probe tip. The replaceable probe tip allows the probe unit to be reused many times, each time with new sterile probe tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Heanue, Scott E. Coleridge, Sophia Elizabeth Berger
  • Patent number: 12070311
    Abstract: An oximeter probe determines an oxygen saturation for the tissue and determines a quality value for the oxygen saturation and associated measurements of the tissue. The quality value is calculated from reflectance data received at the detectors of the oximeter probe. The oximeter probe then displays a value for the oxygen saturation with the error value to indicate a quality level for the oxygen saturation and associated values used to calculate oxygen saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Alex Michael Margiott, Jennifer Elizabeth Keating, Kimberly Merritt Shultz, Scott E. Coleridge, Joseph Heanue
  • Patent number: 12064241
    Abstract: A sleeve or sheath includes a body having a top opening. The body covers a handheld oximeter probe or a portion of the probe. The sleeve has a shape that approximately matches the oximeter probe or portion of the probe, which is covered by the sleeve. The sleeve has a top opening that allows a user to slide the oximeter probe into the sleeve. The sleeve is transparent to radiation emitted and collected by the oximeter probe. The sleeve is formed of a material that prevents patient tissue, fluid, viruses, bacteria, and fungus from contacting the covered portions of the oximeter probe. The sleeve leaves the probe relatively sterile after use so that little or no clearing of the probe is required for a subsequent use, such as when the probe is covered with a new, unused sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Lonsinger, Scott E. Coleridge, Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, William Welch
  • Publication number: 20240188860
    Abstract: A laparoscopic medical device includes an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows the making of oxygen saturation measurements laparoscopically. The device can be a unitary design, wherein a laparoscopic element includes electronics for the oximeter sensor at a distal end (e.g., opposite the tip). The device can be a multiple piece design (e.g., two-piece design), where some electronics is in a separate housing from the laparoscopic element, and the pieces (or portions) are removably connected together. The laparoscopic element can be removed and disposed of; so, the electronics can be reused multiple times with replacement laparoscopic elements. The electronics can include a processing unit for control, computation, or display, or any combination of these. However, in an implementation, the electronics can connect wirelessly to other electronics (e.g., another processing unit) for further control, computation, or display, or any combination of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Todd Louis Harris, Edward Gerald Soloman, Winston Sun, Alan Baldwin, Scott E. Coleridge, Mark Lonsinger
  • Publication number: 20240188861
    Abstract: A laparoscopic medical device includes an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows the making of oxygen saturation measurements laparoscopically. The device can be a unitary design, wherein a laparoscopic element includes electronics for the oximeter sensor at a distal end (e.g., opposite the tip). The device can be a multiple piece design (e.g., two-piece design), where some electronics is in a separate housing from the laparoscopic element, and the pieces (or portions) are removably connected together. The laparoscopic element can be removed and disposed of; so, the electronics can be reused multiple times with replacement laparoscopic elements. The electronics can include a processing unit for control, computation, or display, or any combination of these. However, in an implementation, the electronics can connect wirelessly to other electronics (e.g., another processing unit) for further control, computation, or display, or any combination of these.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Todd Louis Harris, Edward Gerald Solomon, Winston Sun, Alan Baldwin, Scott E. Coleridge, Mark Lonsinger
  • Publication number: 20230371854
    Abstract: An oximeter device has a replaceable probe tip. The probe tip can be removed or detached from the probe unit and discarded. A replacement probe tip can be attached to the probe tip. The replaceable probe tip allows the probe unit to be reused many times, each time with new sterile probe tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Heanue, Scott E. Coleridge, Sophia Elizabeth Berger
  • Publication number: 20230371853
    Abstract: An oximeter probe includes a probe unit or a base unit and a probe tip where the probe tip has a number of sources and detectors that can be accessed individually or in differing combinations for measuring tissue oxygen saturation at different tissue depth in tissue. A processor of the oximeter probe controls a multiplexer that is coupled to the detectors for selectively collecting measurement information from the detectors via the multiplexer. The oximeter probe is user programmable via one or more input devices on the oximeter probe for selecting the particular sources and detectors to collect measurement information from by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Jennifer Elizabeth Keating, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230263437
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230240568
    Abstract: An oximeter probe determines an oxygen saturation for the tissue and determines a quality value for the oxygen saturation and associated measurements of the tissue. The quality value is calculated from reflectance data received at the detectors of the oximeter probe. The oximeter probe then displays a value for the oxygen saturation with the error value to indicate a quality level for the oxygen saturation and associated values used to calculate oxygen saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, Alex Michael Margiott, Jennifer Elizabeth Keating, Kimberly Merritt Shultz, Scott E. Coleridge, Joseph Heanue
  • Publication number: 20230233116
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230225641
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230225642
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230225640
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230225638
    Abstract: An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry readings at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry readings by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The averages are generated and displayed on a display of the device for the oximetry readings if the lifts are made while use directions for the lifts are displayed on a display of the oximetry device. The averages are not generated if the lifts are not made while the user directions for the lifts are not displayed. The averages are simultaneously displayed with the oximetry readings which are instantaneous measurement for patient tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Alex Michael Margiott, William Welch, Sushant Potdar, Scott E. Coleridge
  • Publication number: 20230190153
    Abstract: A sleeve or sheath includes a body having a top opening. The body covers a handheld oximeter probe or a portion of the probe. The sleeve has a shape that approximately matches the oximeter probe or portion of the probe, which is covered by the sleeve. The sleeve has a top opening that allows a user to slide the oximeter probe into the sleeve. The sleeve is transparent to radiation emitted and collected by the oximeter probe. The sleeve is formed of a material that prevents patient tissue, fluid, viruses, bacteria, and fungus from contacting the covered portions of the oximeter probe. The sleeve leaves the probe relatively sterile after use so that little or no clearing of the probe is required for a subsequent use, such as when the probe is covered with a new, unused sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Lonsinger, Scott E. Coleridge, Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, William Welch